2020-04-07 nightly available at https://code.gnucash.org/builds/win32/maint/ flatpaks available at https://code.gnucash.org/builds/flatpak/maint/ - use between 2020-04-04 and 2020-04-10
On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 at 01:38, Christopher Lam <christopher....@gmail.com> wrote: > This topic is about budgets. > > We now know that budgets are currently inherently flawed: they *assume* > that sign-reversal = credit-accounts, and do not work well at all with any > other sign-reversal option. In addition, there was a feature request (bug > 781345) that introduced budget equity into the equation, and I still do not > know whether a budget equity amount is a correct approach. > > In 4.x series there is a planned *fix* which will scan budget amounts, > use heuristics to determine the most likely sign-reversal approach used > during budget creation, internally unreverse the amounts, and upgrade the > datafile so that it cannot be damaged by 3.7 or earlier. > > Therefore 3.8 was the first release which could handle both old and fixed > budget amounts. Unfortunately, the interpretation of budget signs was/is > very difficult, which explained the switch to > asset/liability/equity/income/expense totals, which are impervious to > budget signs. Unfortunately users missed the "Remaining to Budget" facility. > > Therefore 3.9 was, during development, tested with > https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/pull/630 and was deemed "good enough" > to fix to restore the remaining to budget total. Unfortunately the > liability budget amount issue was tested incorrectly. > > For a week, the git-maint contained a candidate fix, discussed in > https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797659 -- but there is > insufficient beta testing on the budgets for now. So, 3.10 will retain 3.9 > behaviour unless the fix is fully tested. > > Conclusion: this is a call for beta testers, using the 2020-04-07 nightly > (the only one with the fix), to test both their datafiles and the > *4.x-featured* datafile attached in the bug report. Please *especially* > test the liability and equity totals, both with existing datafile and > featured datafile. > > Flame away. I will try to be available throughout the day for testing. > Win32 users have only 1 build to test, Linux users may also build from > 882fd22ca rather than git-maint which has returned to 3.9 behaviour. I'm > not sure how MacOS users can test. > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel